The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA), in association with STEVENSON, will present a talk by New York-based artist Wangechi Mutu on Friday 7 November 2014 at 17:15 at Hiddingh Hall. Wangechi Mutu’s work has often seemed to bear … Read more
Internationally renowned academic, Professor Rustom Bharucha, will present the final lecture in the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts’ 2014 Great Texts / Big Questions series. Titled The Aftermath: Reflections on Terror and Performance, this lecture will take place … Read more
Index, a retrospective exhibition marking the inauguration of Stephen Inggs as Professor in the Michaelis School of Fine Art, presents a survey of his work spanning 25 years – a nexus of an ever expanding anthology of the overlooked, recording that which … Read more
The Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts will present the next Great Texts / Big Questions public lecture in association with the University of Cape Town’s Creative Writing Programme as part of the Open Book Festival. The presentation takes … Read more
do it. Start a rumour (Stephen Kaltenbach, Instruction, 1969); move your finger up and down for one minute every morning (Jonas Mekas, Instruction, 1996); construct a device to block a surveillance camera (Ai Weiwei, CCTV Spray, 2012); keep wishing (Yoko … Read more
In anticipation of the Live Art Festival, the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) presents the second of two Pre-LIFE events, introducing some of the themes around which the 2014 Festival has been curated. Pre-LIFE 2 will take … Read more
The 2nd Live Art Festival, presented by the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA), will feature thirty-nine innovative works by local and international artists. Many of these artists, who emerge from the fields of visual arts, dance, theatre, … Read more
In anticipation of the Live Art Festival, the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts presents two Pre-LIFE events, introducing some of the themes around which the 2014 Festival has been curated. Pre-LIFE 1 comprises visual presentations and a panel discussion … Read more
Michaelis Galleries presents Between Subject and Object, a group exhibition exploring the depiction of human remains at the interface of art and science. The exhibition, which runs from 7 to 30 August 2014, also accompanies the Medical Humanities in Africa Conference. In the representation of … Read more
Join us for an audiovisual presentation of the full programme for GIPCA’s 2014 Live Art Festival on Thursday 7 August at 17:30 at Hiddingh Hall. The Programme Launch will include a presentation of each work, the structure of the programme as well as … Read more
Arts writer and artist, Clayton Campbell, will discuss a unique participatory photographic project, Words We Have Learned Since 9/11, as part of GIPCA’s Great Texts/Big Questions public lecture series. The lecture will take place on Thursday 31 July at the Anatomy Lecture Theatre, UCT Hiddingh Campus. … Read more
The Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (JWTC) will host several public events in association with the Gordon Institute for Performing and Creative Arts (GIPCA) on 10 and 11 July 2014. The JWTC is an experiment in global conversation based … Read more
